The Dickinson press., 1887-04-23
About North Dakota.

ADOuI NOrtn UHkOtls
For the information of your read.
ers. l desire to set before them some
of the advantages which Dakota
offers to such as wish to seek homes
in the West. AS is known to you l
have spent the last few weeks in the
valley of the North Branch and have
met the people of many localities at
their usual places of c%oncourse, and
have addressed them on these topics.
The spring of 1887 will afford one of
the best opportunities to go there,
and this will not occur again in many
years, if ever. The advantages af-
forded are many--first there is a rich
soil-this has been fully proven-the
territory has acquired a reputation
all over the world for the growth of
the best quality of Hard Spring
Wheat. In the year 1876 (thc Cent
cnnial year) the surplus wheat grown
in North Dakota and sent to market.
amounted to 100000 bushcls-this
grain. Scotch Fife, had been grown
successfully in Minnesota and Wis
consin, and was highly valued on &C.
count of the excellent quality and
hardness which it acquired in those
northern ATTITUDES, and WAS until 1870
known as NO. l" in the same mar
ket. When the same grain was
grown on the soil of North Dakota
its quality was much improved and a
higher grade WAS required when it
reached the markets of the East. and
then the grade No. ] Hard was
adopted and has since that time been
Il distinctive name for all that is en-
crllrnt and superior throughout Oak
ota-thc cultivation of this cereal
VAS steadily increased, and from
l.Go0,00o bushels i'm 1870 until the sur
plus crop of 1880 in North Dakota en-
cceded 2l,O0o,00U bushels, and this
WAS done notwithstanding IL portion
of North Dakota last year suffered
from Il drouth of great severity. Not
alone in wheat has this soil shown it's
excellence. but also in all the other
cereals, such as oats, barley, rye, flax
etc. Corn has not yet become a sta.
pie crop. although enough has been
done in ii to show that i'm the near
future it will prove Il successful crop,
for all the varitirs that will mature
in eighty days from the time of
planting.
For root crops of all varieties. and
for garden products, the results have
been equally as satisfactory and all
the small fruits have done we'll.
For the larger fruits, such us APP
pies. pears and plulns. it will he
found that the result i'm Minnesota
will prove as successful in Dakota us
it did thcre-twcnty-live years ago
the transplanting of trees from East
crn nurseries was Il disappointment
to all who tried it in Minnesota.
The planting of seeds and the selec.
ton of the best varieties of the pro.
duct of those trees has given to the
frnit-growers in that state some new
varieties of choice fruits which arc
now putting her into the front rank
as Il fruit-growing state. and | believe
| the same result aw;,i,s i'm Dakota.
The climate is another important
factor in this rapidly developing ter.
ritory. While the signal service of
the United States often reports TEN.
pcratures at thirty and forty degrees
below zero, those degrees arc not
found, owing to the dryness of the
atmosphere, to be as severe nor as
hard to endure as a temperature OF
zero and lower in the Susquehann;
valley, and there i no fcvers no
%epidemics of any sort in the territory
l have noticed in the months of
March and April that cattle tc
which have been given the same
shelter in Minnesota and Dakota
that was given in western ant
northern Pennsylvania, were il
much better condition than the,
were in those eastern localities, ant
this / attribute to the nutritious quail
ity Of the native grass that forms tht
hay which is fed in Dakota during
the winter.
This territory has the most nntri
tious grasses for all kinds of stool
which any one could desire, and il
every city, town and county the i'm
crease i'm the amount of butter with
in the past five years has been cnor
nous, for it has grown from nothin.
to the almost total supply of the resi-
dent population. No better countr,